Botticelli - November 2024

Thread Games
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Congrats!

  1. Are you the author of Half Magic, among other books?
  2. Are you the author of Gone-Away Lake, among other books?
  3. Are you the author of Ginger Pye, among other books?
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IQs:

  1. Were you played by Octavia Spencer on a special two-part Harry Potter parody episode of Wizards of Waverly Place?
  2. Did you “almost deserve” your name, according to the first sentence of Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
  3. Were you a fellow traveller of #2 who told him “You were only an ass, but I was a traitor”?
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IQ1: Was your husband the mayor of River City?
IQ2: Were you a food chemist known for writing SF?
IQ3: Were you the founder of Cheapass Games?

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Wow. You guys are bringing the heat!

Take 3 DQs

Take 3 DQs

Take 3 DQs

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IQs:

  1. Were you Edgar Bergan’s female puppet?
  2. Did you have a hit with Orinoco Flow?
  3. Were you the biggest idiot on the highly esteemed, bagpipe-propelled, sawdust-scented, miracle of the 1950s airwaves, the BBC radio series The Goon Show?
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Edward Eager, Elizabeth Enright, Eleanor Estes.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

  1. Are you the author of The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles?
  2. Were you played by Samantha Ferris on Supernatural?
  3. Did you play Barnaby Jones on TV?
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  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Enya
  3. Take a DQ
  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Ellen… something
  3. I am not Buddy Ebsen
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
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Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn
E E “Doc” Smith
James Ernest


DQ1: Living?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?
One DQ reserved.


IQ1: Are you really Arnold Dorsey?
IQ2: Are you a German composer with the same name?
IQ3: Did a character in one of your books quote extensively from a poem by H H Knibbs?

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Dr. Evilini.
Eustace Scrubb.
Edmnund Pevensie, aka King Edmund the Just.

DQ: First name begins with E?

2 DQs reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. Known for the arts
  5. First name begins with E
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Take 3 DQs

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DQs:

American?
Died before 1900?

IQs:

  1. Were you the frontman of the Raspberries?
  2. Were you a bluegrass musician who revolutionized the banjo?
  3. Did you make a phantom tag on the Reds’ Bernie Carbo in Game 1 of the 1970 World Series?
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  1. I am not Eric Carmen
  2. I am not Earl Scruggs?
  3. The beginning of The Big Red Machine? Take a DQ.
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. Known for the arts
  5. First name begins with E
  6. American
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Died after 1960
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Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was Elrod Hendricks, Orioles catcher.

DQ: Died before 1960?

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IQs:

Did your son take something as weregild that he really shouldn’t have?
Was your brother the first High King of Numenor?
Did your ship become what we know as Venus?

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Julie Andrews Edwards (yes, that Julie Andrews), correct - Ellen Harvelle, correct.

2 DQs reserved.

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IQs: (From Elendil_s_Heir)

Did your son take something as weregild that he really shouldn’t have?
Was your brother the first High King of Numenor?
Did your ship become what we know as Venus?
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  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not… Elrond? Just a WAG
  3. Take a DQ

I wasn’t aware she took her husband’s name.

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Engelbert Humperdinck
Engelbert Humperdinck
Edgar Rice Burroughs


IQ: Known for the performing arts?
Two DQs reserved.